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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages work for AI agents. > - The coordination skill tells agents how to handle blocked work. > - The skill directs blocked work to managers and other agents. > - Those agents may lack the same access or authority. > - These extra assignments delay the required human action. > - This pull request removes automatic escalation advice. > - Agents must identify the missing capability and use the correct approval or human-input path. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **Issue type** Incorrect information. **Where is the issue?** The critical rules in `skills/paperclip/SKILL.md` and blocker guidance in `skills/paperclip/references/api-reference.md`. **What's wrong?** The skill tells agents to escalate through `chainOfCommand`, ask another agent for help, and avoid human help. A manager title does not grant permission to fix a connection or complete an administrator action. **Suggested fix** Remove blanket escalation and agent-first rules. Keep normal delegation when the recipient has a concrete capability for a bounded task. Use saved human-input interactions or existing connection and approval flows for human-only actions. Searches for open PRs with “escalation”, “chainOfCommand”, and “ask another agent” found no duplicate skill change. Recovery-routing PRs change server behavior, which is outside this change. ## What Changed - Remove the chain-of-command escalation rule and both repeated agent-first directives. - Replace manager handoffs in the API reference with direct blocker handling. - Keep reporting fields, normal delegation, approval gates, and the ban on bypassing permission denials. - Keep the ban on cancelling cross-team tasks. Request a decision instead of automatically assigning the task to a manager. ## Verification - Final head `1483e82cc3fe10a7c910230b3779635d6d54c162`: Greptile 5/5, no outstanding findings, all CI checks pass (optional Storybook jobs skipped). - Created a fresh worktree at `.worktrees/skill-blocker-guidance` from the current master commit. - Ran `git diff --check`: passed. - Ran Node assertions against both documents: passed. Removed directives are absent. Human-input and capability-based delegation guidance is present. - Checked that checkout conflict, approval, dependency, and normal delegation instructions remain. - Attempted `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm test:run`, and `pnpm build`. None could run because this environment has no `pnpm` executable. - Refreshed both generated capability inventories and their derived contract after skill heading positions changed. Both generator and live-inventory checks pass. The eval and MCP baselines remain unchanged. - Ran `node --test packages/paperclip-runner/scripts/check-capability-inventory.test.mjs`: all four tests pass. - Ran `node packages/paperclip-runner/scripts/check-capability-inventory.mjs` and `node packages/paperclip-runner/scripts/generate-capability-contract.mjs --check`: both pass. - Added explicit requester routing for agent and human scope questions. Focused Node assertions pass. ## Risks - Agents can request human input earlier for actions that require human authority. - Existing runs or installed copies can keep old skill text until refreshed. - This change does not alter server recovery routing or permission checks. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, with reasoning, tool use, and shell execution. The runtime does not expose a verifiable exact model ID or context window size. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>